Lot Description: A Victorian Silver-Mounted Cut-Glass Dressing-Table Service and a Silver-Mounted Flask, by Charles Henry Dumenil, One Bottle and the Flask by Samuel Summers Drew and Ernest Drew, London, 1899, each piece with hammered finish and engraved with initials 'EB', in fitted easel mounted leather stand, one glass bottle lacking, with a leather covered ink bottle and vesta-case, Together With: two mounted copies of newspaper clippings outlining the career of the owner, the flask 15.5cm high , the stand 38.5cm wide Provenance: Owned by Ernest Alfred Bowen. Bowen was a successful Jockey who was born in Worcestershire in 1871 and apprenticed in Newmarket. Bowen saw success at Newmarket and Egmont and so was hired to jockey on the French circuit where he has considerable success during his career. Condition Report: . Each marked on silver mount. There is some wear to the marks but they are generally still legible. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use as well as some small bruises. There is a silver cover without a glass bottle and a corresponding empty compartment on the leather stand. There are some very minor chips to the glass otherwise and some staining and marks to the leather. The stopper is lacking from the flask which does not have a space in the leather stand. ARR: Categories: George IV, William IV and Victorian Silver
Lot Description: A Victorian Silver-Mounted Cut-Glass Dressing-Table Service and a Silver-Mounted Flask, by Charles Henry Dumenil, One Bottle and the Flask by Samuel Summers Drew and Ernest Drew, London, 1899, each piece with hammered finish and engraved with initials 'EB', in fitted easel mounted leather stand, one glass bottle lacking, with a leather covered ink bottle and vesta-case, Together With: two mounted copies of newspaper clippings outlining the career of the owner, the flask 15.5cm high , the stand 38.5cm wide Provenance: Owned by Ernest Alfred Bowen. Bowen was a successful Jockey who was born in Worcestershire in 1871 and apprenticed in Newmarket. Bowen saw success at Newmarket and Egmont and so was hired to jockey on the French circuit where he has considerable success during his career. Condition Report: . Each marked on silver mount. There is some wear to the marks but they are generally still legible. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use as well as some small bruises. There is a silver cover without a glass bottle and a corresponding empty compartment on the leather stand. There are some very minor chips to the glass otherwise and some staining and marks to the leather. The stopper is lacking from the flask which does not have a space in the leather stand. ARR: Categories: George IV, William IV and Victorian Silver
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